Preliminary results from the 'APT Survey' of rail profiles - The assessment of unworn wheel profiles. (TN-DYN-79)

One important result of the "APT Survey" is the production of a tank of 225 measured track cross-sections, randomly sampled from 8 main routes of British Railways. In this report these are used to test the properties of a number of 'new' wheel profiles, as designed. The main cases tested...